A miniaturized, eye-conformable, and long-term reliable retinal prosthesis using monolithic fabrication of liquid crystal polymer (LCP)

J Jeong, SH Bae, KS Min, JM Seo… - IEEE transactions on …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A novel retinal prosthetic device was developed using biocompatible liquid crystal polymer
(LCP) to address the problems associated with conventional metal-and polymer-based …

On the use of wavelet denoising and spike sorting techniques to process electroneurographic signals recorded using intraneural electrodes

L Citi, J Carpaneto, K Yoshida, KP Hoffmann… - Journal of neuroscience …, 2008 - Elsevier
Among the possible interfaces with the peripheral nervous system (PNS), intraneural
electrodes represent an interesting solution for their potential advantages such as the …

Electrodeposited iridium oxide on platinum nanocones for improving neural stimulation microelectrodes

Q Zeng, K Xia, B Sun, Y Yin, T Wu, MS Humayun - Electrochimica Acta, 2017 - Elsevier
Microelectrodes for electrical neural stimulation play an important role in various medical
and brain science applications, however, the shrinking size of microelectrodes leads to high …

Assessment and improvement of sound quality in cochlear implant users

MT Caldwell, NT Jiam, CJ Limb - Laryngoscope investigative …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives Cochlear implants (CIs) have successfully provided speech perception to
individuals with sensorineural hearing loss. Recent research has focused on more …

Dynamics of auditory plasticity after cochlear implantation: a longitudinal study

C Pantev, A Dinnesen, B Ross, A Wollbrink… - Cerebral …, 2006 - academic.oup.com
Human representational cortex may fundamentally alter its organization and (re) gain the
capacity for auditory processing even when it is deprived of its input for more than two …

The MuSIC perception test: a novel battery for testing music perception of cochlear implant users

SJ Brockmeier, D Fitzgerald, O Searle… - Cochlear implants …, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
This study was undertaken to evaluate the musical sounds in cochlear implants (MuSIC)
perception test, created to assess the music-listening abilities of cochlear implant (CI) users …

On the fabrication and characterization of polymer-based waveguide probes for use in future optical cochlear implants

C Helke, M Reinhardt, M Arnold, F Schwenzer… - Materials, 2022 - mdpi.com
Improved hearing restoration by cochlear implants (CI) is expected by optical cochlear
implants (oCI) exciting optogenetically modified spiral ganglion neurons (SGNs) via an …

Neurophysiological evidence of impaired musical sound perception in cochlear-implant users

P Sandmann, A Kegel, T Eichele, N Dillier, W Lai… - Clinical …, 2010 - Elsevier
OBJECTIVE: Music perception with a cochlear implant (CI) can be unsatisfactory because
current-day implants are primarily designed to enable speech discrimination. The present …

Unintelligible low-frequency sound enhances simulated cochlear-implant speech recognition in noise

JE Chang, JY Bai, FG Zeng - IEEE Transactions on Biomedical …, 2006 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Speech can be recognized by multiple acoustic cues in both frequency and time domains.
These acoustic cues are often thought to be redundant. One example is the low-frequency …

Auditory midbrain implant: a review

HH Lim, M Lenarz, T Lenarz - Trends in amplification, 2009 - journals.sagepub.com
The auditory midbrain implant (AMI) is a new hearing prosthesis designed for stimulation of
the inferior colliculus in deaf patients who cannot sufficiently benefit from cochlear implants …